This makes me feel that PB is still a great value and can last a couple more years at least. It also makes me want to switch now and I'm very interested in 12" PB for its portability. I'm wondering if anyone else in this board tried Super PI benchmark for their PBs (any model), could you post the results? SuperPI for Mac can be downloaded at:

Not to sound like I'm downplaying the speed of the superpi results but I'm not sure if such benchmarks really mean much. Would be a more realistic thing to test photoshop or cinebench or 3dmax or something that people actually use. I guess this is a valid test if you had to buy a machine to calculate pi I have a centrino laptop as well as a xeon machine and in superpi, the centrino is pretty close to the xeon in performance but it absolutely gets slaughtered in real world applications....

of course the g4 would beat out the x86 cpu's on eaclulating pi- poewrpc computers are well known for thie floating point processing power. Thats part of the reason why its so populat in the science/mathmatics subjects . in other tasks tho.. the g4 is seriosuly outdated :X

Has anyone confirmed that the program is a direct port? If it's not, it won't be a paricularly good program to compare architectures with. That said, here are the times for the computers at home:

ASUS W3N (Pentium-M Dothan 1.7GHz): 1m54s (114s)

AMD Sempron @ 2.2GHz (256kB L2): 1m31s (91s)

These CPUs seem rather close in terms of efficiency.

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I think the actually test is in question. The software itself wouldn't use all the power of thea archtecture anyways. it sort of pointless. Basically, a RISC arch will be faster in calculating Pi anyways. it isn't a surprise.

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